Which Directory Service do you use for your network?
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#3 Re: Debian 3.1 install went bad, what to do? Posted by rmcgowan (24.6.xx.xx) on Sun 20 Nov 2005 at 06:14 Thanks for both suggestions. I have considered the re-install, but thought I'd take the opportunity to see if there were any other options to try and see how they worked. The install was net based, with floppies as the starting point. The main issue with trying to repair the existing install is that I have no idea how many other packages may also be affected, if any. So, if there are any suggestions along the lines of checking packages for number of files or perhaps checksums for the .deb files, that would be nice to know about. I could go to the Packages file and extract check sums and package names, but it seems like there should already be tools to achieve this sort of thing. On the other hand, maybe there aren't and I should write one?
Thanks for both suggestions. I have considered the re-install, but thought I'd take the opportunity to see if there were any other options to try and see how they worked.
The install was net based, with floppies as the starting point.
The main issue with trying to repair the existing install is that I have no idea how many other packages may also be affected, if any. So, if there are any suggestions along the lines of checking packages for number of files or perhaps checksums for the .deb files, that would be nice to know about. I could go to the Packages file and extract check sums and package names, but it seems like there should already be tools to achieve this sort of thing.
On the other hand, maybe there aren't and I should write one?
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